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Actually the seeker after some place to go may not care two pins for Fort Henry. What he wants to do is, simply, travel. But it is the chore of towns that want tourists to provide him with a good substantial excuse for visiting them. He must have something to report to the Rotary Club back home. Rt. Hon. Ernest Lapointe, Canada’s Minister of Just~ ice, recognized as the leader of the bestâ€"informed Frenchâ€" Canadian opinion, minced no words in declaring his stand on the question of the Dominion’s relation to the Empire in the event of war when he spoke in the House of Com- mons on Friday. This gifted orator, one of the oldest mem- bers of the House, stated that Canada would stand side by side With Great Britain in the event of a major conflict involving the British Commonwealth of Nations. to be performed. ““We inns}; in?) K]: Henry, the citadel of Upper Canada history.” There are some people who do not believe the tourist business is worth bothering about, and arguments can be developed in support of that View. But the consensus fav- ors trying to lure tourists, so it might be well for civic bodies to note the Dolan Paradox and make their towns as different from other towns as would be compatible with good living. Swift Current was successful in this regard last summer when the citizens turned back the hands of time for the Frontier Days celebration, the men growing beards (according to their various abilities) and the wo- men appearing in gowns that might have come west in Red RiVer carts. Most of the women had permanents, however. Other places adopted the same plan. and beards and flounces fluttered in the Okanagan Valley. Towns like Calgary and the Mormon’s Cardston have of course long made the most of their former rangeland flavor. Nearly everyone is a potential tourist, and the poten- tial tourist secretly seeks an excuse to go somewhere. He or she thensu-blimates that excuse into a sort of duty. “We must show Aunt Emma the Apple Blossom Festival in the Annapolis Valley and the Reversing Falls at Saint John and the Bore and Magnetic Hill at Moncton,” says the person seeking an excuse and frowning as at a task to be performed. “We must go to Kingston and see Fort Henry, ’the citadel of Upper Canada; it’s chock full of Mr. Leo Dolan, the able and energetic director of the Federal Tourist Bureau, pointed recently to a paradox in civic ambitions. Towns and cities strove so hard to keep up with each other, said Mr. Dolan, that they tended to become more or less alike. This was, of course, valuable in matters such as sanitation, law enforcement and hotel accommodation, but it was bad for the tourist business. People liked to see something new, or at least new to them. They did no‘i wish to travel thousands of miles only to see the same kinds of hats and eat the same kinds of food as at home. So the typical Canadian or U. S. tOWn, while making great strides to become a metropolis on the New York model, was often with the same effort diminishing its chances of gaining a revenue from tourists. The agitation for some system of garbage collection in Richmond Hill is gaining momentum and that there is a very considerable demand for this service is evidenced by the number of letters appearing in this paper. The apparent demand for some service of this kind should inâ€" spire our town council to give the whole matter their seri- ous consideration. Failing municipal action possibly some one among our unemployed could‘establish a profitable business as a private enterprise. ute that the majority of people in Richmond Hill back them up in their action we suggest they ask the people for an _exnressi0n of opinion. We have no doubt that by an overwhelming majority and with a unanimity which we have not observed on many public questions the peonle- would vote against legislating a reputable firm out of a legitimate business. We hope council members will not continue to ignore public opinion. We hope the now estab- lished business will not have to leave town. In the storm of protest which has followed the coun- cil action some members of council have come in for severe criticism. While we do not agree with council members in their action we certainly do not agree with those who ascribe to them ulterior motives. We do not think that because Councillors Little and Hill happen to be engaged in the automobile business that they have taken their stand because of any thought for their own business. We be- lieve they are sincere in their opinion that they are. as representatives, acting in the best interests of Richmond Hill. If however the council members think for one minâ€" ute that the majority of people in Richmond Hill back them up in their action we suggest they ask the neonle A licensing by-law would be sufficient safeguard that car wreckingr establishments in Richmond Hill would not be the unsightly junk heaps they undoubtedly are in some places. At the same time it would allow a reputable firm to conduct a legitimate business. Any time the provi- sions of the licensing by-law were not respected the license could be cancelled. We would heartily endorse a byâ€"law providing for the licensing of car wrecking plants. Such a hy-law would enable council to decide whether or not the location pro- posed was a suitable site for such a business and provide for reasonable regulations and regular inspection by the proper authorities. A reasonable license fee would more than cover the cost of such inspections. To sav that be- cause a license would be granted for a car wrecking busi- ness at the Richmond Motors garage, a license would have to be granted to anyone else who applied irrespective of the location, is indeed a ridiculous argument. In refusing to amend the byâ€"law which would proâ€" hibit the conduct of a car wrecking business of any kind here members of Richmond Hill council we think are act- ing contrary to the will of the great majority of the citiâ€" zens who elected them to office. The members deserve commendation for their foresight in taking some action to make sure Richmond Hill would not suffer from un- sightly car Wrecking yards. However we think in their zeal they overstepped the mark by passing a prohibitive by-law. Advertising Rates on Application. TELEPHONE 9 THE LIBERAL PRINTING CO., LTD. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Subscription $1.50 per year â€"â€" To the United States $2.00 Established 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RIGHMOND HILL PAGE TWO Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District THE CAR WRECKING BY-LAW THURSDAY, APRIL 20th, 1939. GARBAGE COLLECTION LET’S BE DIFFERENT CANADA AND WAR “THE LIBERAL” J. Eachern Smith, Manager This unhappy state of affairs might have continued indefinitely in our household, as our untutored mind‘s did not perceive the cause and effect relationship between ganba'ge in the furnace and pipe-drip in- the bedroom, had not our furnace gone on a sit-down strike and refused to proceed. When all home-made efâ€" forts and a shift in the wind failed as remedies, official help was hast- ily summoned. The tinsmith remov- ed one of the bedroom pipes, show- ing it completely filled with undeâ€" finable matter. “Green wood,” said the tinsmith, shaking his head sadly in sympathy, “might do that.” We had not burned any green wood, but we had burned plenty of other green it soon sensed my helplessneSS and increased in strength. Black rivuâ€" lets began running down the verti- cal pipe, gathering momentum as they went, until they finally reached the living room. Here they were readily accessible to the inquisitive children. It took the kiddies only brief experimentation to disc-Over that the sticky blackness could he transferred to the fingers. But it took them a much greater degree of experimentation to discover which of the availanle fabrics was the most suita'ble for wiping the fingersâ€"dthe window draperies, the sofa cushions, or just the plain velvet portieres. It is quite true that the pipe does not allow a particle of. heat to es- cape from the house. It is equally true, as we have learned to our soy- row, that it does not allow a part- icle of garbage to escape either. During our first winter in the horse, cheerfully and confidently we placed the parcels of garbage on the furn- ace. It was with some reluctance that they disappeared. but disappear they did. This satisfactory state of affairs continued for some months until presently the pipes in the bed- room began to dripâ€"to drip a sticky substance impervious to all ordinary cleaning methods. The (lJI‘lp was timid at first, making only modest splotches on my lbest bedspread, but But to ‘burn the garbage in the furnace ,as Scavenger Too suggests, is not for our household. There is in this village at least one house (I know because I live in it) in which the combustion products from the furnace are not carried to the upper air by a common and every day sort of chimney. Instead of a chimney, a stove pipe six inches in diameter begins at the back of the furnace and pursues a purposeful path through the house. It goes [quite d'irectly up the aide of the living I'OOm' wall, but when it reaches the front bedroom it really asserts itself thy turning a right angle and: crossing the full length of the bedroom along the ceiling. At the far end it connects with a pile of yellow rbricks which grace the outside gable of the house so that to the external eye the house is a normal one, possessed of a chimâ€" ney. A relative of mine who makes occasiilonal visits from the States gazes upon our thirty-five feet of stove pipe with a gleam of real ad- miration in her eve. and ways. “Can- adians are such thrifty people. That pipe system doesn’t allow one partâ€" icl-e of heat to escape from the house.” menus, it should be perfectly possâ€" ible to run a household without early age. Such foods as bread. milk and butter do not make garbage. All tinned goods. also, are relatively garbagmfree. But the tin can pol- icy, if pursued too relentlessly. leads to problems of its own since the vi]- lage has no tin can collection in the winter time. By the first of April the tin cans have “become camels in the tent of our garbage, and the larger tin can which we are pleased‘ to call a car must needs be parked' in the driveway. But if, in menu planning, we‘ admit a hankering for a cup of tea or coffee, or a modest orange, or even get reckless and buy fresh peas in the pod or corn on the cob, then we must confess to the existence of ganbage in the household. The citrus! fruits are noâ€" torious gan‘bage-‘miak‘ers, and doubt. less there are people who feel that the children should not be deprived of their orange juice simply because one does not know What to dIO with the peels. quesu point theore weeks ago and- that he Scavenger T Before di It is with the greatest satisfacâ€" tion that I note that the call of Scavenger in The Liberal of two weeks ago did not pass unheeded, and- that he is now supported by THE DRIP, DRIP, DRIP OF THE GARBAGE the Editor of The Liberal, on frcm I should- THE LIBERAL. RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO dlsc Letters from the People ussing the my like g the garbage personal standu to point out that carefully chosen e perfectly possâ€" old' without gamb- Hbread, milk and (e ganbage. All process I came to the inescapable conclusion that if the garbsge was‘ going to end up in the back yard anyway. it was a sheer waste of time and energy to route it there via the cellar and front bedroom. No longer. therefore. do we strug- gle to volatilize the garbage in the cellar only to have it solidify and deposit in the pipes in the front bedroom. But momentos of our era of trust and! confidence are still with us in the form iof,permanent black drip marks on the ‘bedroom pipes. As I look up at them I say to myself re-miniscently, “Yes, those were delicious grapefruit, but I What puzzles most of us poor,l humans is why the sudden craze for' the beautiful. We have never notâ€" iced those commendable traits so outstanding in certain people before. If the desire were sincere and per- manent we might well look for this charming village soon to blossom forth as the,‘beautiful among- the most beautiful. Looking about town we noticed the official town dumrp, presided over by our council I sup- pose, and I suppose it too is beau- tiful. A trip around the town re- veals many other instances in the face of which our town fathers have rer‘nained for years dumb and speech- Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, H-oc opus, hic labor est. The ganbage's descent to the under- world is easy enough, but in our house its ascent to the upper air is so difficult as to be impOSSible. Bucket after bucket of the sooty, sticky, smelly substance was carried from the front bed’room and dumped in the back yard; As I watched the process I came to the inescapable conclusion that if the garsbsge was As I gazed at the twenty-three feet of pipe in the bedroom filled full of metamorphosed garbage, I was reminded of the lines of Virgil encountered in high school days. Fac‘lis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis: things YONGE ST. LITTLE BROTHERS Ford Sales and Service This 1939 Ford Vâ€"8 will have a long, strenuous life over every type of road, yet it’s prepared for hardships. It has had the benefit of all the accumulated Ford experience at building millions of carsâ€"the benefit of every modern test for detecting unsoundness or flaw. We spend money to make sure your Ford Vâ€"8 will give you years of satisfactory service. We take pride in building the Ford Vâ€"8 and we want you to get a lot of satisfaction out of owning it. See your Ford Dealer for a trial drive. 1939 Form Vâ€"8 DE LUXE TUDOR V-Type 8-Cylinder Engine ‘ Comfort - Stabilized Chassis FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED: FORD, MERCURY, LINCOLN-ZEPHYR AND LINCOLN MOTOR CARS NEW FORD V-8 Dis car doesn’t expect to lead an easy lifiv HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FORD V-s Can you tell me why Richmond Hill every so often with the regu- larity of the seasons has to pep up with some ridiculous situation which makes us the laughing stock of the world. Most towns and most town councillors are on the constant alert to attract new business. Apparently in Richmond Hill it’s different. If 'you want to start a “busineSS here you must run the gauntlet of whims and fancies. What Richmond Hill really needs is a by-law to prevent councillors. from passing vby-laws. Editor, The Liberal really must train my famin to eat the peels too. It is much the easi- est way.” IT MUST BE THE ALTITUDE NO‘W WE ARE THREE Hydraulic Brakes - Scientific Soundproofing RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, APRIL 20th, 1939. less. Some places of business, even some garages selling new car parts could hardly by any stretch of ima- gination be called nature's beauty spots. The logic I suppose is that junk from a wrecking plant which would be invisible is by far worse than junk from any other place which is visible. Seriously speaking Mr. Editor the council’s action is beyond: my com- prehension. If there is any explan- ation for these periodical flights i11150 the ridiculous on‘ the part of our village would you please enlighten me. In the meantime I am, ALL KINDS OF SHEET METAL WORK F‘urnacea, Eave Troughs. Metal Garages. Roofing JoBbing Promptly Attended to Established 1880 TINSMITHING FURNACES - PLUMBING HEATING Septic Tanks Installed Pumps Barn & Stable Equipment 74 Yonge btreet Phone 92F I.F‘OX . Ttiple-Cushioned ' Low Prices THOROUGHLY DISGUSTED. R. H. KANE